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Piano Day 2016 Playlist

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A playlist killed himself by jumpin in front of my bike.(#016)

Pianísimo

take a breath | neo-classic & ambient

Demo of a new song for my daughter who holds a special place in my heart...a song for her to cherish forever...

Emma Lee

The great success of my "Valses melancoliques" (including the award-winning No. VIII - le desir eternel) encouraged me to continue this musical idea of melancholic valses, resulting in 12 new valses from C minor to B minor, created in a 14 day "composing rush" in April 2013 :-)

Pianist Carlos Marquéz (https://soundcloud.com/cmdigital), whom many of you know for his outstanding piano recordings, was so kind to play some of the "Swans". 
Enjoy his breathtaking performance of this piece!

Carlos played all 10 Valses melancoliques Series I, which you can find on iTunes and many other platforms. Truly can recommend this!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/beneking-10-valses-melancoliques/id600563482

All 12 "Swans" will also be published as an album towards the end of 2013, performed by pianist Danaë Vlasse (https://soundcloud.com/danae-vlasse).
Here is a "Preview" of the first 6 valses: 
https://soundcloud.com/stephan-beneking/preview-valses-melancoliques

The scores for this series you can find here: http://www.beneking.com/swans
The direct link to the booklet with all scores:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4v1JwJiY6oJVURybWNwbURSLUU/edit?usp=sharing


Valses melancoliques I

Valses Melancoliques II - "The Swans" - No. 3 played by Carlos Márquez www.beneking.com

I think there are different types of music, and music making....  there is the construction part,  there is manufacturing of music (not good in my opinion), then there is the intimate music,,, what I would call a gateway or window to a persons soul.  Often singers touch us with this,,, instumentalists, composers etc...   do this,,,  they pour their soul into the music,,,   I also think many electronic musicians do this,,,  however what we hear usually on the radio is manufacturing,,, "made in China" sort of thing.  Usually the singer does nothing except sing the song,,, the song itself is made in "visual basic",,, parts taken from here and there.   Thank God we still have indy scene,,, that´s where people really manage to do things wonderfully still,,,   and that´s the best thing about soundcloud in my opinion.

Well, back to the point,,,,  I get inspired by many things,,, very often by light and nature.  When I was coming home on my bike from work I had a sacred moment by the sea,,,   total calm and the birds where enjoying this wonderful day we got....   the picture is from that place...    So I had to do some music and this is what came out,,,  and it certainly feels like a gateway to my soul....     And now outside we have the northern lights :)

Is Music A Gateway To Ones Soul?

Hi All,

This is a re-made version of my track Hope, which has been extended, features a new middle section and incorporates a full string ensemble.  

My debut album "Heart Strings" is now available on iTunes...https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/heart-strings/id989429326

If you like this track, please follow me on Facebook... https://www.facebook.com/EdHaydonMusician

I hope you enjoy this version - please let me know what you think. Thanks for all your support :)

Ed

Hope

Getting emotional..

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I am happy to announce the release of my 2nd original piano album! I consider the pieces included in this album to be my best compositions, recorded in 2013. The album has some tracks, which are not included in this set.

I hope you will enjoy them as much as I enjoyed playing them. Your support is very much appreciated as it brings me closer to achieving one of my dreams - to have a real acoustic grand piano. Thank you for your continuous appreciation of my music!

iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/album/accidental-etudes/id848461749
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Etudes-Milana/dp/B00J8ZCOF2
BandCamp: http://milana.bandcamp.com/album/accidental-etudes

Reviews:
Kathy Parsons: http://www.mainlypiano.com/2014_Reviews/Milana-Accidental_Etudes.html
Michael Diamond: http://michaeldiamondmusic.com/2014/04/29/accidental-etudes-by-milana/
Sally Rowsell: http://rowsellstudio.blogspot.ca/2014/05/accidental-etudes-milana-zilnik.html

Storms  in my soul 

Storms  in my soul - Milana - on iTunes

Avant-garde classical landscapes, left field electronics, bass productions and straight up Indie rock: the Anglo/German independent label Erased Tapes Records likes it multidimensional. Established by German-born Robert Raths in early 2007, the record company is currently managed by Raths and Sofia Ilyas in London. Over the years, Erased Tapes has become a melting pot for innovative and imaginative musicians including Ólafur Arnalds from Iceland, German composer Nils Frahm, Ukrainian music pioneer Lubomyr Melnyk, American multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick, singer songwriter Douglas Dare, English film composer Michael Price and electronic artist Rival Consoles. For Carhartt WIP Radio Sofia Ilyas has produced a show that gains an insight into the labels musical approach, from classic to electronic and beyond!

Tracklist:
Lubomyr Melnyk - The Six Day Moment
Michael Price - A Tenderness
Douglas Dare - Seven Hours
Kiasmos - Looped
Rival Consoles - Odyssey
Ólafur Arnalds - Endalaus II
Nils Frahm - For - Peter - Toilet Brushes - More
Peter Broderick - These Walls Of Mine II
Codes In The Clouds - Don't Go Awash In This Digital Landscape
World's End Girlfriend - Teen Age Ziggy
Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - A1
A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Steep Hills Of Vicodin Tears
The British Expeditionary Force - Pleasantly Confused

Carhartt WIP Radio March 2014: Erased Tapes - Radio Show

A little twist.  Turning your mind upside down. 

Photograph by: Lance Nicol

Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1 (Tülpa Remix)

‘Apologues’ will be released by Erased Tapes on September 11, 2015 on LP/CD/DL and can be pre-ordered from www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP075

Masayoshi Fujita, the Berlin-based Japanese vibraphone player, also known under his alias el fog came to the attention of label founder Robert Raths a few years ago. Not only because the vibraphone is an intriguing instrument, but also the way Masayoshi treats his instrument and draws ethereal and layered sounds, is what truly attracted him to Masayoshi’s work.

Having released more ambient-based/electronic recordings of the vibraphone under el fog, Masa became more interested in the sound of the vibraphone itself. He started to compose acoustic pieces and released the first solo album under his real name, titled ‘Stories’, in early 2013. ‘Apologues’ sees Masayoshi for the first time use an array of instruments besides his lead instrument – such as the violin, cello, flute, clarinet, French horn, accordion, piano and snare drum played by friends, but arranged by Masa himself.

In addition to the mallets, Masayoshi often plays the vibraphone with a violin or cello bow, like on ‘Tears of Unicorn’ and ‘Knight and Spirit of Lake’. He would also place bead strings on the vibraphone bars to create an ambient shimmer that can be heard on songs like ‘Moonlight’ and ‘Swallow Flies High in the May Sky’. The latter was composed to let the clarinet express its characteristics and tell its story, whilst the vibraphone takes a supporting role. “The clarinet sounds very warm and soft and very ‘spring’ to me”, says Masa.

“With this album the main idea was to evoke images, atmospheres, sceneries and stories in the listener, the images that have accumulated in myself. At the same time it was an exploration of the unexplored beauty of the vibraphone, and also a pursuit of the charm of the instrumentation and the music itself. Erased Tapes releases a lot of great stuff and naturally became my favourite label of late. And I thought it would fit well to my music.” – Masayoshi Fujita

OFFICIAL WEBSITES: masayoshifujita.com · erasedtapes.com

Apologues

Tears Of Unicorn

Buy LP/CD/DL

Masayoshi Fujita – Tears of Unicorn

The Caretaker, "Libet's Delay"

Debut LP Out Now //
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/LDMalbum
Webstore: http://smarturl.it/LDMstore

Debut EP Out Now //
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/ldmEP
Spotify: http://smarturl.it/ldmEPstream

Malt Liquor

Pre-Order LP

Actias Luna - Continuous Piano Recorded Live

a warm wintermix. build around 'Restoration', a song for PianoDay 2015, by Ed Harcourt.

more earconditionings on mixcloud.com/thehunter


tracklist:

1. Far From Land — Nest
2. To Speak Of Solitude — Brambles
3. Never Ending January — Espen Eriksen Trio
4. Restoration — Ed Harcourt
5. Own Frequency, Own Time — El Fog
6. Frost — Swod
7. Stellify — Federico Albanese
8. 03:06 — Olafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm

winterdipsaus

http://snowblinksays.com/

HOW NOW

Look at you, look at you
Look at you, look at you 

Ancient-treetop from the neck-up and newborn-calf in the knees
Will the goodness we have witnessed stay good for centuries? 

This is so new, how now!
Look at you, look at you 

Honey still hot from the tired bees 
Sweet sap weeping from our favorite tree 
Tell me will the goodness we have witnessed
stay good like this for centuries ? 

You and me, let's get together!
Watch what you call for — all birds have a call 
Look at you, look at you
Look at you, look at you

///////

Released by Outside Music 3/2/2016
Written by Daniela Gesundheit and Dan Goldman
Lyrics by Daniela Gesundheit
Performed by Daniela Gesundheit, Dan Goldman, Barbara Gruska, Johnny Spence, Brodie West, Charles James, Feist (Cameo response on "Tell Me Will The Goodness")
Produced by Dan Goldman, Robbie Lackritz, Daniela Gesundheit
Recorded by Robbie Lackritz, Dan Goldman
Mixed by Robbie Lackritz
Mastered by David Travers-Smith
Photo by Terri Loewenthal. 
Design by Paul Henderson. 

How Now

“Golden Days” from ‘Light Upon The Lake’ by Whitney, out June 3rd on Secretly Canadian

Pre Order Now:  
Secretly Canadian: http://smarturl.it/whitneytheband
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/whitney_it
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/whitney_amz
Support your local independent record store: http://smarturl.it/whitney_ind

Golden Days

Whitney - Golden Days

Taken from the EP Forgotten Postcards.
Release date: March 28 (Piano Day) on 1631 Recordings.

Read more about Piano Day: http://www.pianoday.org/
#PianoDay

Luke Howard - Atlases

A demorecording of one of my piano songs. More to come soon... =)
I hope you like! 

Take care everyone,
Silvio

#PianoDay
#Pianoday

Eternity was not enough

exclusive piece for Piano day ! 


FIND MORE INFO HERE: 

https://www.facebook.com/pianodayofficial/

www.pianoday.org 

evolv - we learn we grow

Recorded & Produced by Sam Steensen.

Socials:
https://www.facebook.com/leotheband
https://twitter.com/LeoMusicAU
https://www.instagram.com/leotheband

Hold On

This is a piano piece written for, and dedicated to, Piano Day 2016

And We Danced (Piano Day 2016)

Solo Remains are previously unreleased tracks from Nils Frahm’s album Solo, which was recorded on the M370, the world’s largest piano, built by the visionary piano maker David Klavins in 1987.

Nils fell in love with the sound of this giant and joined David for the new project – building an even higher piano – the Model 450. The aim of it is to explore the not yet reached physical limits of the piano instrument and also to push forward into new musical dimensions. The M450 will be characterized by an even clearer sound with more depth and richness of overtones as well as an unrivaled frequency spectrum and intensity of sound and tone. In time for the 2nd anniversary of Piano Day, Nils decided to give four previously unreleased songs from that very session to his fans and supporters of the Klavins 450 project.

“In the end, every album production leaves you with the same tough task – making the choices for the final track selection. You leave out some tracks for various reasons: some of the tracks are wonderful by themselves, but they simple don’t fit anywhere in the album and others have to be left out because otherwise the vinyl would become too long for a cut in good quality. However, these outtakes are often as important as the final selection and I thought, they might be a great surprise for Piano Day too. I hope in this case, it’s both …”

Solo Remains is available for free download in 24-bit and mp3 format.
http://www.nilsfrahm.com/works/solo-remains/

Passing

Vice Versa

From "Mother's Son" Vol II EP.

Recorded at home by Francis Lung. 
Produced by Francis Lung and David Jay in Manchester.
Mixed by Adam Jaffrey and David Jay at Unwound Studios, London.

http://francislung.co.uk
http://facebook.com/francislungofficial
http://twitter.com/francislung
http://instagram.com/francislung

Dance 4 Sorrow

Written and Produced by Anup Paul. Vocals, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Synthesisers, Percussion and Programming by Anup Paul. Sound Design and Effects by Anup Paul. Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Anup Paul. Recorded at Spicy Benefit Studio and The Doogh, London, England.
℗ 2016 A. K. Paul
Artwork © 2016 Paul Institute
http://paul.institute

LANDCRUISIN'

"Every day is piano day"

To celebrate Piano Day, I'm sharing one of my morning improvisations  with all of you , please enjoy ! 

Every day is indeed piano day !

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Impromtu in B minor

HAPPY PIANO DAY

Chilly Gonzales - Impromptu in B Minor

Study for Player Piano (i)

SPIRITUAL SONGS FOR LOVERS TO SING
MAY.06.2016
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BENEATH THE CONCRETE
Written & Performed By Ellery James Robert w/ Ebony Hoorn. 
Produced by The Haxan Cloak. 
Engineered by Ray Tovey
Drums Stephen Hermitt.

Courtesy of Mute Records 2016.
https://luh.international
...............................
When yr eyes gon square from spectacle glare
dead desert Religion turnt 451F 
reality reduced to a reflection 
of yr black mirror Fantasy
remember2remember
Don't worry about a Thing! 
This world is not all that it seems: 
Beneath the Concrete;
the Beach! 
Hear Sands of the infinite sing
All We Are is People Trying ! 
All We Are is People Trying to Live ! 
Trying to Live a Life that Means Something ! 
Trying to Live a Life that Means Something More !

Beneath The Concrete

ÓLAFUR ARNALDS & NILS FRAHM - 'a2' from their forthcoming collaborative EP 'STARE'.

ORDER the Ltd. Edition 10" Vinyl/Download HERE and receive an Erased Tapes 5th Anniversary sticker with it:
http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP042

'A hazy slow-builder that sits nicely equidistant between Arnalds’ solo work and his excellent Kiasmos project' – The Line Of Best Fit

CONTENT

Erased Tapes label mates Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm record and mix their first collaborative record between Reyjkjavík and Berlin as a surprise release for label founder Robert Raths.

The ambient/electronic work ‘Stare’ is a true family effort from Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm with Anne Müller joining in on cello and all graphics by close label-friend and now in-house designer Torsten Posselt of Feld Studios.

This release will be strictly limited and exclusively available on Record Store Day 2012, April 21st. Coinciding with the 5th Anniversary of Erased Tapes, it’s also available from the official Erased Tapes online store and sure to become a must-have for fans of the label and these two artists.


CONTEXT

Words by Nils Frahm: 
‘I heard ‘Eulogy For Evolution’ for the first time 6 years ago and I was totally captivated. Impossible to know back then that I was supposed to meet Ólafur many years later as my label mate. Later when he took me along a tour of his we also noted that we kind of like hanging out together, doing important things like cover versions of long forgotten songs or eating veggie pizza. Also he would join my live set for a jam and I would return the favour by playing along with his set. 

All in all, I fell for Óli and after one memorable jam session we had in Berlin at Roter Salon in 2011, he finally proposed the idea to visit me in my studio in Berlin to work on 'some music'. I was happy and delighted about that idea, so we got together in April 2011 and after having a big pizza, I plugged in some old analogue synths and we played for four days until late in the night. Also queen Anne Müller stopped by after a show with Agnes Obel to record some cello at 5 am in the morning for ‘b1’. Making music together with people is lovely! 
 
The time I spent with Óli in Berlin made me very happy and the music wasn't like anything I have heard before. It was all very reduced and minimal and I felt like I couldn't have done this alone. So we decided to do another 4-day jam at Óli´s E7 studio in Reykjavik. So I flew there in the end of October to repeat the trick and record some out of this world ambient music. It didn't take us too long to write ‘a1’ and ‘a2’.  I can’t wait for the follow up!’

Words by Olafur Arnalds:
 ‘After having toured together and having had many inspiring late night conversations, I decided to visit Nils in his Durton Studio in Berlin for a weekend. We didn't have anything specific in mind, we just wanted to hang out, jam and eat some falafel. That's what we did, but somehow we also made 25 minutes of ambient bliss that weekend. 

After that we quickly decided we had to do the same in my studio in Iceland. Just hang out for a weekend and possibly make some music. So the album became kind of an Iceland vs. Berlin thing. I think you can hear it very well in the sound (side a vs. side b) and that is the most interesting thing about this record for me: that subtle but significant different in the characteristics of the music two people made in Iceland against what the same two people made in Germany. 

I'm not sure why we decided to keep it secret, it just happened. But it sure was fun! I remember a party at Robert's (Erased Tapes founder) flat in Berlin, where me and Nils stood in the corner the whole night whispering about the project. We then delivered the fully mastered record with finished artwork to Robert around the 5th anniversary of the label. It would have been nice to be there to see his face…"

The live video of Nils and Ólafur’s spontaneous improv live set in Berlin last summer won them many fans since, including UK electronic music producer Max Cooper who is now remixing two of his “absolute favourite artists”. Nils and Ólafur will be touring together throughout Europe this spring.

You can watch it here: http://vimeo.com/28631568
 


LABEL: ERASED TAPES RECORDS    UK RELEASE DATE: APRIL 21, 2012
CAT.NO: ERATP042 EP/DL   EAN: 4050486068137

TRACK LISTING:  1. a1  2. a2  3. b1

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:   OLAFURARNALDS.COM   DURTONSTUDIO.COM   ERASEDTAPES.COM 

Stare

Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - a2

Ambient/Cinematic/Textural

evolvs musical style is driven by powerful harmonies and complimenting melodic movements continuing to push the boundaries of cinematic post-rock and ambient compositions with textural and binaural elements.

evolv - we learn we grow

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